I thought I'd make a thread to raise awareness of, and celebrate, the advocates of Iranian/Persian history and hopefully some of us can buy their books, attend their lectures and tell our friends (iranian and non-iranian) about them.
The reason why I made this thread was that I bumped into a Welsh professor on twitter who was commenting about Joanna Lumley's great visit to Iran which was on ITV yesterday (Check it out here: https://www.itv.com/hub/joanna-lumle...re/2a5513a0003 )
First up, it has to of course be Professor Richard Nelson Frye - Scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University:
The reason why I made this thread was that I bumped into a Welsh professor on twitter who was commenting about Joanna Lumley's great visit to Iran which was on ITV yesterday (Check it out here: https://www.itv.com/hub/joanna-lumle...re/2a5513a0003 )
First up, it has to of course be Professor Richard Nelson Frye - Scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University: